I just encountered this same problem while trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 on a server I inherited from another team. Unfortunately, its BIOS is password-protected and nobody knows the password, so... I had to find a different workaround. It turns out that—instead of changing the BIOS to store time in UTC—you can just change the system time to the (correct) UTC time.
To do this, I just hit CTRL + ALT + F2 near the beginning of the installation to bring up a terminal prompt, and then ran: ``` $ date Wed Nov 21 11:36:20 UTC 2018 ``` Note that it was *not* 11:36 am in Greenwich when I ran this, it was 11:36 am in Detroit(!) So I simply advanced the system time 5 hours by running: ``` $ sudo date --utc --set "Wed Nov 21 16:37:00 UTC 2018" ``` This was enough to trick the installer into thinking that the system time was correct, I guess, because the installation completed without a hitch after that. (I just fixed the system time manually afterwards...) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1779757 Title: Ubuntu 18.04 installer failure related time synchronization issues on a DELL server To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1779757/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
